Blessing the Hands That Feed Us, Vicki Robin
Blessing the Hands That Feed Us, Vicki Robin
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Blessing the Hands That Feed Us
What Eating Closer to Home Can Teach Us About Food, Community, and Our Place on Earth

Author: Vicki Robin

Narrator: Vicki Robin

Unabridged: 11 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 01/07/2014

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Taking the locavore movement to heart, bestselling coauthor and social innovator Vicki Robin pledged for one month to eat only food sourced within a ten-mile radius of her home on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound, Washington. Her sustainable diet not only brings to light society's unhealthy dependency on mass-produced, prepackaged foods but also helps her reconnect with her body and her environment.

Like Barbara Kingsolver's Animal, Vegetable, Miracle and the bestselling books of Michael Pollan, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is part personal narrative and part global manifesto. By challenging herself to eat and buy local, Robin exposes the cause and effect of the food business, from the processed goods laden with sugar, fat, and preservatives to the trucks burning through fuel to bring them to a shelf near you.

Robin's journey is also one of community as she befriends all the neighboring farmers who epitomize the sustainable lifestyle. Among them are Tricia, the prolific market gardener who issued Robin's ten-mile challenge; Britt and Eric, two young, enthusiastic farmers living their dream of self-sufficiency; and Vicky, a former corporate executive turned milk producer.

Featuring practical tips on adopting your own locally sourced diet, Blessing the Hands That Feed Us is an inspirational guide and testimonial to the locavore movement and a healthy food future.

About Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin is a renowned innovator, writer, and speaker. In addition to coauthoring the bestselling Your Money or Your Life, Vicki has been at the forefront of the sustainable living movement. She has received awards from Co-Op America and Sustainable Northwest and was profiled in Utne magazine's book Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. She lives on Whidbey Island in Washington.


Reviews

Meh. I am struggling to get through this book. There is a ton of good information in it, but you have to get past the author, with her clumsy self-revelations and preachy patronizing tone. I can't tell you how irritating I find it that I agree with her on almost everything, given how little I'm enjo......more

Goodreads review by Kay

I loved this book! Vicki Robin's earlier book, Your Money or Your Life, was a great help to me in getting connected to my core values and making changes in the way I spent my money and the value of time. I was following her blog before Blessing the Hands was published so knew it would be about her e......more

Goodreads review by Sara

So I ended up taking a few breaks while reading this, due to being busy with school. It has been a while since I picked it up last. I will try to write as good of a review as I can, but I did read most of this a long time ago. The premise of the book fascinated me when I first saw it in a free book p......more